JV Boys’ Basketball Conquers Hendrickson 42-40
The JV Boys’ basketball team inched past the Hendrickson Hawks and scored a win for the Warriors on Tuesday, Jan. 21. The Warriors fought hard and set the score at 42-40.
“We played pretty good defensively,” coach Drew Rigney said. “We probably could have scored a little more on the offense, but when it came down to the game, we made the plays that counted and we wound up coming out with a win.”
The Warriors started the game off slowly, making only six points compared to the Hawks’ 10 in the first quarter. The second quarter also didn’t go as well as the team had hoped. However, the team turned it around in the last few minutes of the first half, with Glen Liu ‘21 making several shots. The first half ended 19-18, the Warriors in the lead.
“I thought I played pretty good, but I thought I played a little too timid,” Liu said. “I could’ve made better shots. I thought we started around the end of the second half, we came out really fast, but then we slowed it down and let them catch up.”
After the first half, it only got better for the Warriors. Within five minutes, Samer Salman ‘21 and Vinay Majjiga ‘22 both made shots putting the score at 31-19.
“My motto is to never give up and whenever I saw we were down, I talked to my team and I feel like I’m one of the leaders on the team so I had to pick everyone up and I told them ‘let’s go, let’s keep the intensity up’ and then we started rolling,” Salman said.
Salman, Liu, and sophomores Carson Turner, Eric Gu, and Josh Choy all scored during the third and fourth quarters, pushing the Warriors’ score higher and maintaining their league despite a late Hawks’ rally. The game ended with the score 42-40 and the Warriors walking away with another win for the season.
“I think I could’ve made more shots. I think on the defensive end, we did a pretty good job, but offense we kind of lacked and had a lower shooting percentage and missed some of those free throws at the end, but we got it done at the end of the day,” Salman said.
The Warriors’ next game will be Friday, Jan. 24 against the Vista Ridge Rangers at Vista Ridge High School.
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